Collection of Letters Sent to Shadal - Enlightenment Movement Scholars and Poets

Collection of Letters Sent to Shadal - Enlightenment Movement Scholars and Poets
About 90 handwritten letters sent to Shmuel David Luzatto by scholars and poets, linguists, commentators and intellectuals of the Enlightenment Movement. [Europe, first half of 19th century - most letters are from 1830s-40s].
A large collection of letters about research, copying of manuscripts, debates, scholarly comments about the bible and other compositions, sent to Shadal (1800-1865) - a member of the Jewish Enlightenment movement, one of the first scholars of "Chochmat Israel", head of Rabbinic Seminary in Padua, poet, biblical commentator, linguist, philosopher, researcher and translator.
The collection includes:
* 14 letters from the researcher and historian Ya'akov Reifman + a pamphlet in his handwriting + 2 letters from Reifman addressed to Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ghirondi, Rabbi of Padua. * 15 letters from Yehushua Höschel Schorr, one of the most extreme Haskala scholars in Galicia (some letters are particularly long). * 3 letters from Adam Hacohen Lebensohn (pen-name of Avraham Dov-Ber Michailishker, first Hebrew poet in the Russian Enlightenment movement, a pioneer of new Hebrew literature and one of the leaders of the enlightenment movement in Lithuania) + a letter from his disciple, Yosef Noah Vilkover + letter from his son, Micha Yosef Hacohen (Michal). * 6 letters from Raphael Kirchheim. * 7 letters from Shaul Yitzchak Kampf. * 17 letters from Shlomo Zalman ben Gottlieb (Salomon Gottlieb) Stern ("Kochav Tov"). * 7 letters from Yitzchak Rietenberg. * 2 letters from Yissachar Ber Blumenfeld. * 5 letters from Itzek (Yitzchak) Blumenfeld. * 2 letters from Shimon Santo. * As well as several letters from Shmuel Shoenblum, David Halevi, Ya'akov Halevi, Gabriel Rosenthal from Komarno, Moshe Reicherson, Mordechai Hacohen (Marcus Stum), Julius Fürst, Hirsch Mendel Pineles and Zelig Leib (Leopold) Schick.
In some of the letters the writers mention outstanding personalities of the period, like, for example, Rabbi Prof. Hillel Della Torre, Avraham Firkovich and Yom Tov Lipman Zunz. Many letters include copies of poems or literary passages, piyyutim, missives etc. On top of part of the letters appears the number of the reply letter sent by Shadal to the writer, as it is numbered in "Igrot Shadal").
Enclosed: envelope from Adam Hacohen; title page and pages with table of contents of booklet no. 3 of "Hechalutz"; two letters from Shadal's grandson, I. A. Luzatto, which accompanied the above letters (apparently, sent to the researcher Avraham Kahana): "please have… letters from the sages of this generation sent to my grandfather Shadal…".
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Most letters are folded. Tears or defects to some of the letters as a result of ink erosion. Some stains. Worming to some letters.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.